Cliff Shadows

1921

Walter Elmer Schofield

Painter, American, 1867 - 1944

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist [1867-1944]; purchased 1921 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1921

  • Eighth Exhibition: Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 18 December 1921 - 22 January 1922, no. 99, repro.

1932

  • Special Exhibition of Paintings by Walter Elmer Schofield, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1932, no. 10.

1979

  • Loan to The Metropolitan Club, Washington, 1979-1980.

1983

  • Walter Elmer Schofield, Bold Impressionist, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, 10 September - 20 November 1983, repro.

1984

  • The Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting, Allentown Art Museum; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greenburg; Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, 16 September 1984 - 1 September 1985, fig. 2:25.

1998

  • The Forty-Fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907–1998, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 July - 29 September 1998, unnumbered catalogue.

2003

  • The Impressionist Tradition in America, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 19 July 2003 - 18 October 2004, unpublished checklist.

2014

  • Schofield: International Impressionist, Woodmere Art Musueum, Philadelphia, 2014-2015, cat. pg. 69.

Bibliography

1929

  • Lewer, J. "W. Elmer Schofield-Artist." The Vista (August 1929): 8, 27. ill.

1966

  • Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, 1966: 72.

2011

  • Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 316, repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: Schofield - / '21

Wikidata ID

Q46633996


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